Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-12-10
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
FREE TRADE.

The Sacramento Bee is fearfully and
wonderfully exercised over the Presi-
dents message, which is natural when
we consider that it strikes a death knell
10 the hopes of the Republican party in
1888. The Bee says: ............ (.
Let the voters read the Free Trade
message of Grover Cleveland. Let the
manufacturers read it. Let the work.
ingmen read it. Let the men who are
dependent upon their daily bread read
It. Let them know that the Democratic
Moses who hus brought his party out of
the wilderness of twenty-four years of
defeat is the very man who to-day de.
sires to deprive the American laborIng
citizen Of his daily bread, who attempts
TO sanity doctrine that might leave
the wives and children to the tender
hands Of charity. For, just 30 sure as
Free Trade prevails in this land, just 80
sure viii engines be stopped, just so
sure will the fire go out in the forge,
Just so sure will the busy whirl of
whe, i be ended in many and many a
manufacturing town of this nation,
which to-day has its greutest pride in
its strong, intelligent, honest and happy
workers. -
What fearful state Of affnirs is b ire
predicted! But unfortunately for the
''Buzzing Bee" the peoIls of this ma
ton are sufficiently intelligent to under
stand when they read the message th,
il is not Fres Trade document in any
sense of the word, but on the contrary
the principles enunoiated, unlike the
p 'rnioiouI doctriue of Protection, arc
/ the interest OF the toiling millions
who are Unfortunately taxed on the
necessaries OF life solely to foster and
build mp gigantic monopolies and fill
the United States Treasury to overflow,
ing with q surplus for which the Gov
eminent has no use. Protection! Suoh
protection as wolves give to lambs!
Who are protected by the unjust tariff
which il placed upon the necessaries uf
lrfe2 Is it the poor widow who is DOM.
PEELED by the inordinate greed of her
wealthy employer to exc - out o miser-
nble existence for herself and children
by making shirts for 80 cents per dozenP
Is it the sewing girl who in order to
keep the wolf of starvation from her
door MAKES mems heavy overnlls for 60
cents per dozen, that the wife Of her
wealthy employer mny deck herself in
silts and diamOndS, subsist on the fat
of the land and be- waited on by mel iaIs
who are slaves in every sense of the
termp Is it the Conl and Iron workers
Of Pennsylvania who dare not presume
to ask for living wages lest they be dis
charged and their places filed by the
Wanted "pauper labor of Europe" i'm
ported from the slums Of the overerowd.
el localities of the OIL World?
We, too, are ia fnvor Of Protection;
but not that protection which in les ef-
fects makes the rich richer and the poor
poorer, but that which protects the
masses Of the people, the bone and
pfnew Of the nation, the consumer of the
necessaries Of life from an unjust and
inordinute taxation upon those articles
which IRE absolutely neoes sary to bls
existence, The necessary expenditures
Of Government must be provided for
and this vast sum must be derived from
Internal Revenue on liquors and to-
bacco and duties on imports. d. Act lhe
revenue on liquors and tobacco remain;
they are luxuries. Regulate tho tariff
laws so that the duty on imported lux
uries shall be high while that on necss-
asries shall be low, and by these mel nH
let the Government provide Tariff for
Revenue Quli. II
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